I put deadlifting into practice over the weekend, and yes, there's no other word to describe it.

While on a wilderness canoeing trip, we had to hang up a tarp to keep rain off our cooking area at one of the spots we set up camp...but we only had two trees to work with.

There was this huge rock near the water that I was able to deadlift and carry up to the site; someone stretched out the tarp's rope for me to put the rock on it so that we'd anchor the last side into place.

The rock must have been well over 250lbs, but because of my weight training, I was able to lift it and walk it the 100ft that it needed to be moved.

Dude I deadlift 425 lbs (I think... 197.5 kg anyway) for reps and there is no way in hell I could pick up a rock that was even 150lbs, unless it had handholds cut into the sides of it maybe.

Grats on enjoying the fruits of your labour in such a satisfying way anyway dude, I have grown to enjoy outdoor activities so much more now that I'm a lot more competent with physical activity.

Also, if you do heavy squats but don't play basketball or do sports specific stuff, go outside and see how freaking how you can now jump! I hadn't tried jumping properly in about two years and have doubled my vertical jump first time I ever experienced hangtime, feltgoodman.

My squats aren't that heavy yet, only doing around 250lbs for my working sets with 5-8 reps. My weight has gone up a lot though, around 25lbs over the last 4-5 months since I started strength training...so I think my "ups" are actually worse than before if I really tried to jump high.

Dude the strongest men in the world who can easily rep out 800lbs deadlift lift rocks that are only 220–352 lbs and even that is only for a couple feet of the ground. There is no way and i mean no way that that rock weighed more than 100lbs. Don't mean to be a buzzkill, but it's true.

I looked it up, but their lightest rock is 220lb, and they have to lift it to head level...plus then they have to do 4 more rocks that escalate to 350lbs, all to head level as well, and all as fast a possible to set the record times. I just lifted this thing to deadlift rep level, and then waddled to where it needed to go.

Those dudes also deadlift 800lbs. You said you did 275. There's a big difference there. Don't mean to take a shot at your ego but there's no way you'd be able to pick up a 150lb+ rock and walk that shit unless you were putting up bigger deadlifts.

I do the same thing. I honestly think it's better. If you want the benefits of cleans, add them to your workouts and do them right. 3 shitty cleans per workout isn't going to do anything but mess with your wrists.